Hillsborough County FlArchives Biographies.....Perry, Norvin A. November 2, 1887 - 
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Source: Vol. II  pg.89  The Lewis Publishing Co. 1923
Author: History of Florida, Past and Present 

        NORVIN A. PERRY, president of the Latin American Bank and cashier of 
the Bank of Commerce, is one of the sound and sagacious financiers of 
Hillsborough County, and a highly-esteemed business man of Tampa. He was born
in Owen County, Kentucky, November 2, 1887, a son of W. M. and MATTIE A.
(ATTERBURY) PERRY, natives of Kentucky and Missouri, respectively. The father
died in 1917, but the mother survives and makes her home at Madisonville, 
Kentucky. They were the parents of the following children: W. A., who is a
resident of Henry County, Kentucky; JOHN H., who is president of the American
Press Association and resides in New York City; NORVIN A., whose name heads
this review; and MARIE, who is the wife of Doctor M. S. VEALE, of Madisonville,
Kentucky.
	Growing up in his native county, NORVIN A. PERRY attended its public
schools and the college at Front Royal, Virginia, and when only nineteen years
old entered upon what was to be his life work, as an employee of the Hanson
Bank, at Hanson, Hopkins County, Kentucky. His position was a humble one, and
he received only $40 per month for his service as a bookkeeper and teller, but
during the two years he remained with this bank he made excellent use of his
time and learned the details of banking, rising to be cashier. Subsequently he
returned to Kentucky and became cashier of the Crestwood State Bank at
Crestwood, a suburb of Louisville. There he continued until 1920, when he came
to Tampa. His long and practical experience in the banking business has made
him one of the valued men in his line in the county, and he is not only
president of the Latin American Bank and cashier of the Bank of Commerce of
Tampa, but is also president of the Bank of Sulphur Springs, Florida; vice
president of the Hawthorne State Bank at Hawthorne, Florida, and vice president
of the Bank of Dade City, Florida; vice president of the Bank of Osceola
County, Kissimmee, Florida, and a director in several other Florida banks.
	In 1912 Mr. Perry married ALBERTA BOWERS, a member of an old Virginia 
and family, and a daughter of W. H. G. BOWERS. Mr. and Mrs. Perry have one son, 
NORVIN A., Junior. Mr. Perry has formed numerous connections since coming to 
Tampa, and is treasurer of the Civitan Club. He has come to Tampa to stay, and
is very much interested in its growth and optimistic with reference to his
future, for he feels assured that with its natural advantages and the location
here of so many sound business enterprises the progress will be wholesome and
rapid. His is a career which proves that it pays a man to concentrate upon the
business for which he is fitted, and not to dissipate his efforts in different
channels.


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